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Embedded finance has quietly become the invisible engine behind everyday transactions, weaving payments, lending, banking, insurance and investment tools directly into platforms that were...

Regulators are sharpening their focus on smaller institutions that have raced into payments and FinTech-adjacent business lines without matching investment in compliance. In May 2026,...

FinTechs are pursuing bank charters at unprecedented rates, but the path to independence is leading them straight into an increasingly turbulent regulatory environment. According to...

Castellum.AI, a FinTech company specialising in financial crime compliance through integrated AI agents and in-house risk data, has raised $8.5m in an oversubscribed Series...